Make Your Own Retro Hip Wayfarers - Cool, Man

Got a party or masquerade event coming up soon? Snag a sheet of these hip papercraft sunglasses to add to the insanity  fun.

Retro Sunglasses Template

Retro-style Wayfarers sunglasses to make an instant mask or toy for kids of all ages - even you boomers who probably still have your original shades. You can print, cut out and put together these knockoff replicas with nifty brads at the corners; add some to your party favors or photo booth props. We recommend printing your papercraft retro sunglasses on heavy photo paper for extra shine but any card stock will do the trick.  Free for any noncommercial use - if you want to share, share the link or the web site page.

Fish Border Printable Sheet

Fun tropical fish border paper provides the perfect setting for summer coloring crafts.

Fancy fish swim along the bottom of the page, printed in black and white and ready for coloring with markers, pencils or water colors.

Fish Border Coloring Sheet

Printable Diploma

Printable Diploma Blank

Need a diploma for GED, home school or other non-traditional educational settings? Here's the latest blank diploma added to Pastiche Family Portal's classroom printables.

Suitable for students of all ages - fill in details for student, date and other information by hand or on computer.  8.5" x 11" printable diploma is free for noncommercial use.

St. Patrick's Day Cupcake Toppers

Leprechaun Hat Cupcake Toppers

If you're serving cupcakes or finger foods for St. Patrick's Day take a peek at these wee flags to add a bit o' party spirit to the table. Call these cupcake toppers or food flags or stickers - it's all fine with the leprechauns. Stick them on a toothpick or coffee stirrer and jab 'em into your food for instant Irish fun.

You'll find a free printable sheet with a dozen of these St. Patrick's Day party cupcake toppers ready to print and cut out for your pub crawl or St. Patrick's Day party.

If ye prefer shamrocks, we let the wee folk talk us into making a printable sheet of shamrock cupcake flags/stickers too. Use  wither one for any noncommercial project to make St. Patrick's Day stickers, food flags, drink charms or even checkers.

Christmas Cookie Bag Toppers: Gingerbread Man

Sweet! There's a Merry Christmas greeting with  space below for your personal note or to/from info on one side, and 3 dancing gingerbread cookies on the other side. Six cute gingerbread treat bag toppers on each printable sheet.

Print on photo paper for a fancy look or cream colored card stock to create a homespun feeling. Add your own sweets to a small sandwich bag, fold over a topper and staple closed.

Printable Treat Bag Toppers: Gingerbread Men

Peace Sign Craft Paper

A full page of printable peace signs to use for paper crafts, gift wrap or scrapbooking with a peace theme. Downloadable 8.5 x 11 PDF or choose a smaller peace fingers graphic to use as clip art. Free for any noncommercial use - repost small images only with link to the papercrafts web page.

Peace Sign Background Paper Printable

Paper Craft Owl Mask

Owl Mask Printable

Whooo will you be for Halloween? Why not a wise owl? All you need is this printable Paper Craft  Owl Face Mask, craft knife and yarn or elastic thread to make your own wise own face mask.

This is just one of more than a dozen free printable masks at Clip Art and Crafts.

My New Favorite Craft Gadget

Craft Cutter Die Cut Word Art

I've tried plenty of tools and gadgets for crafting and sewing, but the latest addition to my craft room is definitely one of my favorites. I've got a shiny new Silhouette Cameo craft cutter and I'm already getting loads of ideas on how to use it. I've been testing it out with the fonts I already had on my computer, and I'm making cutting shapes from my own coloring page art and digital stamp drawings. This is way-cool fun!

The first project I designed and cut was a welded die cut of my granddaughter's name using a font on my computer and a sheet of heavy embossed card stock from my stash of Nana's Kids Cardstock Collection  by Die Cuts with A View.

I've had this lovely heavy weight craft paper for a couple years; the last project I made with these cute designs was a set of party hats for Anya's 2nd birthday. If I'd had this cutter then I could have added each child's name to the front of their party hats.

I'll be using my Cameo cutter to create some Oma-designed fancy cupcake wrappers for her 3rd birthday bash. Maybe I'll even make some standup table decorations or a very special paper doll ... stay tuned for more projects from the Cameo craft cutter.

PS I think I'll be adding freebie die cut shapes to my web site this year!

Cute Cupcake Mini Flags

Mini Flags - Cupcake Design

New freebie just in time for birthday parties or backyard bashes. If you need some clever crafty signs to decorate party tables or label treats at your BBQ, picnic, bake sale or pot luck luncheon, try making a few food flags with these easy printables. Print, label, fold and glue to a plastic straw or kabob stick.

Need to mark tables? Use these simple food flags and add numbers.  You'll need to anchor the finished flags in a bottle, flower pot or basket filled with beans or a block of foam so they'll stand up ... or tuck them into a floral arrangement or real cupcake!

Mini Cupcake Craft Flags - free printable for personal use, these food flags feature cupcakes, but there are several other designs including a blank template you can use to make your own mini flags.

Hawaiian Flower Letter Paper

Hawaii Flower Letter Paper

Just in time for tropical vacation scrapping or luau party games - printable  Hawaiian hibiscus flower border paper with lines.

Use this paper for crafts, scrapbook pages or writing letters. Make your own journal or luau party memory book by printing multiple sheets and placing them into a binder.

Having a Hawaii holiday this year? Add a bit of Mele Kalikimaka with just a touch of green, perhaps by writing in green ink or rolling up the sheet and tying with a tropical green ribbon.

This free printable tropical flower border paper with hibiscus watermark and writing guidelines is free for non-commercial and personal use.

Print these 8.5" x 11" luau letter paper sheets at Pastiche Family Portal.

South of the Border Cactus Clip Art

I'm been  designing  Day of the Dead printables this week and  plan to use these cactus border clip art graphics to make name tags and drink charms.

 

Cactus Clip Art Border

Pumpkin Shape Paper Coloring Sheet

Pumpkin Shape Paper

Halloween or Thanksgiving harvest pumpkin shape paper with lines.

Kids can write a poem or story about what their thankful for, write a spooky Halloween story, practice writing letters and numbers and color in the page after the writing is done.

If you make these pumpkin sheets smaller you could use them as gift tags or labels. Add a bit of color with your graphics editor or with colored pencils.

Maple Leaf Sticker Sheet

Maple Leaves Sticker Sheet

Brilliantly colored fall leaves are nature's curtain call to summer. Maple leaves are one of the most brilliant autumn leaf displays - you can find red, orange, yellow and multicolor maple leaves all over New England in October. Columbus Day weekend is the height of the "leaf peeper" season.

Celebrate the autumn season with this sheet of printable maple leaf stickers in brilliant gold and orange.

Handy Idea - Hand Print Crafts for Kids

One of the simplest crafts you can make with kids from toddler age up through early elementary grades requires only a child's hand for the pattern.

Hand print crafts are fun and simple, and they give kids practice in tracing, coloring, cutting and pasting.

Check out all the different hand print crafts and hand trace art projects at Hand Print Crafts for Kids - all free, all easy, all tons of fun.

Peace Dove Love Coloring Poster

Peace Dove Coloring Poster

Make a love theme coloring book for the kids (or kids at heart) at your wedding! 

Flying dove  love and peace coloring picture with fancy stamp style borders is part of a whole set of printable love theme wedding coloring pages. Use as a coloring page or digital stamp.

Free for personal use, printable Peace Love Dove Stamp Coloring Poster is a simple download PDF, no registration required.

Father's Day Tie Craft

Here's a crafty idea for the kids to make a time-honored Father's Day gift  - a neck tie! Print a neck tie shape on a piece of card stock, or print on paper and glue the shape to a piece of recycled cereal box cardboard, then trim along the outline of the tie shape.

Decorate the tie with any colorful crafty bits from your scrap box - fabric and paper scraps, rick rack, sequins, stickers, markers and just about anything else that will stick. The goal is to be wild and colorful ...

After the glue dries, trim off any ragged edges around the tie shape, then have the kids attach their tie to their shirt front. Depending on the type of shirt your child is wearing, you can fasten the tie to the shirt with a piece of tape, paper clip or bulldog clip, brass fastener through a button hole, or (for older kids only as this could pose a potential choking hazard) a length of 1/4" elastic, narrow ribbon, yarn or string.

Where to find a Tie Pattern: Cut out a neck tie template from this Dad's Tie  printable coloring page - you can use the coloring sheet to make a poster or jumbo greeting card, too.  If you prefer other tie styles, you can try these neck tie, bolo and bow tie templates.